Digging into Mac OSX Lion - 10.7
Over the next two (2) weeks I may be publishing a series of short videos to help buyers with some of the minor changes they'll be experiencing having migrated from Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) to Mac Lion (OSX 10.7).
My primary impressions of OSX Lion is terribly favourable. Its been noted that Apple has succeeded to maintain the same look & feel for the amateur user and at the same time providing some critical and infrequently powerful tools for the experienced in the background.
The new Mail application is a great example of a top product, which is now much better. Whilst Apple's Mail application was the first to provide access to Microsoft's Exchange 2007 platform (long before Microsoft's Outlook 2003) and its boosted features, the application itself was limited and frequently subject to crashing.
Additionally, access to Gmail as an IMAP service was 'hit-and-miss'. Mail messages would appear and hide at random and the Web forums where full of similar complaints from folk utilising hosted Exchange mail. The application interface was terrible and the navigation between separate accounts was ungainly. Nevertheless it was still a much better alternative to Microsoft's Entourage.
The latest version of the email application has an exceedingly strong company interface. Navigation is intuitive and potentially a trend that other's will follow. The ability to show and hide the folders isn't new however the icon allowing this action is both intuitive and convenient.
The power to add quick fixes to folders whilst not new is further reinforced by the 'show-hide ' feature of the folders. As a user who amasses mail messages and catalogs each one, my folder list is in depth and the straightforward task of fileing messages had been an inconvenient task till the releasing of this evolutionary Mail application.
It is not all good news though. Put simply , Safari is a tragedy.
Although I'm yet to determine if the problems I have been experiencing are related or not it would seem that Safari in the Snow Leopard guise was bullet-proof and off milk in OSX Lion.
I have noted that AdSense accounts won't display and so the CPU utilisation is often at it's maximum whenever Safari is launched. Plainly, most folks are not involved with AdSense adverts ' however it is a simple technology that all browsers should be in a position to accommodate. I have tested both Chrome and Firefox without issue thus I am upbeat that Apple knows the issue and is busy working on a solution.
I also read numerous forum posts where folk are stating that applications have stopped working since the upgrade. This is par-for-the-course usually whenever an O. S. is overhauled. Most industry leaders are advising that folks should wait a couple of weeks before upgrading giving program developers time enough to acclimatize to the new OS.
The subsequent fortnight will be a fascinating period as people upgrade and conform to Mac OSX Lion. I may be 'keeping an eye' on what's being said and posting to my Mac Lion Blog together with the video's I discussed earlier.
In the interim, let's be optimistic that Mac OSX 10.7.1 is on it's way with some significant solutions for Safari.
My primary impressions of OSX Lion is terribly favourable. Its been noted that Apple has succeeded to maintain the same look & feel for the amateur user and at the same time providing some critical and infrequently powerful tools for the experienced in the background.
The new Mail application is a great example of a top product, which is now much better. Whilst Apple's Mail application was the first to provide access to Microsoft's Exchange 2007 platform (long before Microsoft's Outlook 2003) and its boosted features, the application itself was limited and frequently subject to crashing.
Additionally, access to Gmail as an IMAP service was 'hit-and-miss'. Mail messages would appear and hide at random and the Web forums where full of similar complaints from folk utilising hosted Exchange mail. The application interface was terrible and the navigation between separate accounts was ungainly. Nevertheless it was still a much better alternative to Microsoft's Entourage.
The latest version of the email application has an exceedingly strong company interface. Navigation is intuitive and potentially a trend that other's will follow. The ability to show and hide the folders isn't new however the icon allowing this action is both intuitive and convenient.
The power to add quick fixes to folders whilst not new is further reinforced by the 'show-hide ' feature of the folders. As a user who amasses mail messages and catalogs each one, my folder list is in depth and the straightforward task of fileing messages had been an inconvenient task till the releasing of this evolutionary Mail application.
It is not all good news though. Put simply , Safari is a tragedy.
Although I'm yet to determine if the problems I have been experiencing are related or not it would seem that Safari in the Snow Leopard guise was bullet-proof and off milk in OSX Lion.
I have noted that AdSense accounts won't display and so the CPU utilisation is often at it's maximum whenever Safari is launched. Plainly, most folks are not involved with AdSense adverts ' however it is a simple technology that all browsers should be in a position to accommodate. I have tested both Chrome and Firefox without issue thus I am upbeat that Apple knows the issue and is busy working on a solution.
I also read numerous forum posts where folk are stating that applications have stopped working since the upgrade. This is par-for-the-course usually whenever an O. S. is overhauled. Most industry leaders are advising that folks should wait a couple of weeks before upgrading giving program developers time enough to acclimatize to the new OS.
The subsequent fortnight will be a fascinating period as people upgrade and conform to Mac OSX Lion. I may be 'keeping an eye' on what's being said and posting to my Mac Lion Blog together with the video's I discussed earlier.
In the interim, let's be optimistic that Mac OSX 10.7.1 is on it's way with some significant solutions for Safari.
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